The miraculous original of this copy owes its name to the 7th C. tale "On the Penitence of Theophilus, Chirch Cellarer in the City of Adan". The Church tradition relates several miracles performed by icons of The Hope of Sinners in 18th C. Russia. The 19th C. considered the icons of St. George church at Bolkhov and the church of the Nativity of Christ at Palashi (Moscow, is at present in the church at Uspensky Vrazhek), the oldest and best-known among these images. The service to this image was complied in Moscow in the 19th C. The prayer to Our Lady the Hope of Sinners was taken from a Russian translation of the Tale of Theophilus. The icon commemorated on February 5. 1840, Moscow (?)